Nevertheless, it was an effective enough product that Manjoo had started using it as his backup music player ("when my iPhone’s battery dies"). Like the Edsel, to which it has sometimes been likened, Manjoo said the Zune's failure may have led the way to eventual success with other products. The HD's user interface, he noted, was the first such Microsoft product to rely on text rather than icons, and it would form the basis for Windows Phone, Windows 8, Xbox and all of the company's web-based services. The Segoe typeface that is now used in all of them, as well as Microsoft's current logo, was first used on the Zune. Business consultant Simon Sinek discusses the Zune in his 2019 book The Infinite Game, describing the Zune as a triumph of design but a failure of long-term strategic thinking. Microsoft was focused on beating Apple's portable music player, while Apple was behind the scenes focused on the iPhone that was introduced a year after the Zune's debut and, to a large extent, rendered obsolete handheld MP3 players by popularizing smart phones. At the end of the 2017 film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Peter Quill is gifted a Zune by Kraglin to replace his destroyed Walkman. References External links Zune.net — Redirects to a Q&A for Zune users titled Important changes are coming to Zune Marketplace Zune Insider – Insider blog & podcast — Dead link Zune Podcast Support – An interview with Rob Greenlee, Podcast Programming Lead for the Zune about the second generation Zunes' support for podcasts. — Dead link Zune Podcast Connected Show Interview – An interview with Rob Greenlee. During the Interview we discuss his long career in Podcasting, his work in the Zune Podcast team, how to make podcasts successful and finally the ZuneHD Audiovisual introductions in 2006 Products and services discontinued in 2012 Consumer electronics brands Defunct consumer brands Discontinued Microsoft products Defunct online music stores Portable media players Digital audio players Windows Phone software